DESIGNING A BOOK TRAILER


Remember your purpose is to persuade other students to read your book too!

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ANALYSE THE BOOK - what was good, unique, interesting about your book. List/brainstorm/mindmap your impressions, feeling, important points.

RESEARCH OTHER BOOK TRAILERS that are similar to what you would like to do. Preview some from this wiki or search for book trailers on YouTube or Teacher Tube . Decide what you like and don’t like.

SCRIPTING & STORYBOARDING Write a SCRIPT and/or create a storyboard.

GATHER YOUR RESOURCES - images, sounds, sound effects or video.Decide which ICT tool you will use for delivering your trailer
Plan effects (transitions, sound, colouring, etc)

CREATE: Review the plan – with teachers, other students and create the trailer

SHARE: Some movies can be uploaded directly to a wiki. Alternatively, you can upload to YouTube and then get the embed code if you wish to place it on a wiki or blog.



Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.


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The Book Trailer below was made as an iPhoto Slideshow and exported as a Quicktime Movie. The movie has then been added to CEO Parramatta Teacher Tube Channel.




ONLINE RESOURCES

free online resources. Students should include an acknowledgement slide
FLICKR - Use this search page to search for Creative Commons (Copyright Free) Images.
PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES - royalty free images
FREE PHOTOS 8 royalty free images
PICS for LEARNING
CLASSROOM CLIPART
DANOSONGS - royalty free music creative commons licensed site
PARTNERS IN RHYME Free Sound Effects
SHELFARI online Bookshelves

SOFTWARE SUGGESTIONS

iLIFE Suite for MAC includes iPhoto; iTunes; iMovie and Garage Band
COMIC LIFE is a great tool for the classroom eg Illustrate a conversation between characters from a text in comic book format. Check out some samples and how tos on this Comic Life site
SAM Animation for ANIMATION including Clay Animation


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